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Porsche Blog, Performance, Tuning, Motorsport, and Modification News

These are two German luxury ballistic missiles with all wheel drive and twin turbo V8's. This is a bit of sibling rivalry with the RS7 targeting the Porsche Panamera Turbo although doing so at a much lower price point (not that a $104,900 base price is cheap). The Audi RS7 has the 4.0 TFSI twin turbo direct injected V8 with 560 horsepower and the Panamera Turbo is rated at 520 horsepower from its 4.8 liter twin turbo and direct injected V8. This is the facelifted Panamera Turbo for 2014 which gets a 20 horse bump.
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Porsche is already working on the successor to the current Cayenne which will get styling influences based on the Macan. The problem presented for Porsche is the Macan looks fresher, is cheaper, and performs closely to its premium big brother Cayenne. Porsche intends to address these concerns with the next generation Cayenne that is expected to get lighter courtesy of sharing its platform with the upcoming Audi Q7.
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Some Porsche purists are worried that the switch from the GT1 race inspired flat-6 block in the GT3 will take away from the sound quality of the GT3. Porsche is using the same facility to produce all the direct injected blocks and is sharing them among 911 models (the GT3 also sharing the timing chains, head bolts, AC compressor, and alternator from the 991 Carrera) to cut down on costs leading to speculation that the aural quality of the GT3 would be impacted. The video below shows that there is no need to fret as the GT3 sounds as great if not better than ever.
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The Cayman is not a car exactly built for the strip but that is not because it is not capable. It's fairly light and with the same 3.4 liter flat-6 motor (although detuned) as the Porsche 911 Carrera it certainly is capable. This is a pretty good real world example of the 6-speed manual model showing numbers one can realistically expect on the strip. The run takes place at the PBIR (Palm Beach International Raceway) dragstrip in Florida.
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The whole world by now knows actor Paul Walker died as a result of an accident in a Porsche Carrera GT at a charity event last month. Just about everyone paid their respects and grieved over the loss. Everyone except for Modern Woman Digest and its writer going by the name of Adora Bull who took the opportunity to drum up hits for the pile of crap that is Modern Woman Digest by attempting to gain views by posting the Top Five Reasons she is delighted Paul Walker is dead.
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Here we finally a stock 991 Turbo at the drag strip as all the 1/4 mile sprints thus far have been from the 991 Turbo S. At PBIR (Palm Beach International Raceway) Champion managed using launch control to run a 10.939 @ 126.090. This puts the 10.63 @ 128 a 991 Turbo S hit on the drag strip in Bahrain into perspective. Two completely different locations but the 991 Turbo S seems to be offering roughly in the ~2-3 mile per hour range in trap speed on the 991 Turbo.
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The Porsche 991 Turbo has barely even hit the streets and guys are already tossing aftermarket rims on them. Here is a 991 Turbo wearing HRE P40SC rims and looking quite sexy in the process. These wheels also appear to be 21 inches. Just a few years ago it would have been unheard to have rims of this size on a Porsche 911 but the new 991 Turbo comes with 20 inch rims stock. The car needs a drop but these rims look right at home on the 991.
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Well this is an interesting development. Last week PorscheBoost reported that a new four-cylinder boxer motor was in the works from Porsche and that motor would be going into the Macan as well as the Boxster/Cayman. That motor is still in development but it appears that the four-cylinder Macan will not come to the United States. Apparently Porsche will bring a 3.0 liter V6 diesel Macan model with 258 horsepower and 428 pound-feet of torque instead.
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The Porsche 2.7 liter flat-6 just continues to rack up awards despite being the smallest and least powerful engine Porsche offers. Why? Because it is incredibly efficient. This motor won an International Engine of the Year award earlier in the year and now adds a Ward's 10 Best Title. The 2.7 liter motor puts out 265 horsepower in the Boxster and 275 horsepower in the Cayman. That means over 100 horsepower per liter yet is capable of 34.4 MPG on the combined cycle.
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Mid 10 second car stock? That looks to be exactly what the Porsche 991 Turbo is capable of and keep in mind this is not even the more powerful 991 Turbo S. An owner in Bahrain took delivery of his 2014 Porsche 911 Turbo and wasted no time getting to the drag strip. So how did it do? How about 10.63@128 miles per hour (206 kilometers per hour) with an absolutely absurd 1.51 60 foot. This car is launching out of the hole hard!
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Interesting news here although not all that surprising. The Macan getting a four-cylinder motor makes sense as the model will slot in right below the Macan S. The interesting part though is that Porsche does not seem to be interested in simply borrowing the 2.0 liter FSI motor VW and Audi both share. Porsche is developing their own boxer four-cylinder. Why? This motor will likely be the engine that has been rumored to go into the Cayman and Boxster.
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The automotive world is running out of superlatives to bestow upon the Porsche 918 Spyder. Yes, the car looks absolutely amazing. It performs absolutely amazing as evidenced by its sub 7-minute Nurburgring laptime. It also sounds absolutely amazing as its race derived V8 approaches 9k rpm on the tach. This vehicle is simply one of the best supercars ever created and a technological tour de force. Does it sound like PorscheBoost wants one? PorscheBoost wants one.
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Now the McLaren MP4-12C is hardly a cheap car but the 991 Turbo S price has ballooned so far this comparison makes a lot of from a performance and price perspective. The 991 Turbo S starts at $182,050 and with options can easily go to over $200k out the door. The cars also have other similarities other than being expensive such as twin turbo powerplants with the same 3.8 liters of displacement although the Porsche motor is a direct injected flat-6 whereas the McLaren MP4-12C has a port-injection V8 with a flat-plane crank.
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